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RE: Hutch

The complaints/comments made about radio apply for MOST industries (fewer
employees/more work....no new opportunities).

Frankly, it's world we live in.

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Roy
> Lawrence
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 1:45 PM
> To: DonKelley@aol.com
> Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Hutch
>
>
> Don Kelly Wrote:
> That is not a post defending Hutch.  No one attacked
> him.  That is a
> post calling Greater Media cheap for not hiring
> weekend jocks from
> Emerson.  I'm trying to point out a couple of flaws in
> your post:
>
>
> 1) That "cheap" is a non-issue when it comes to hiring
> weekend talent.
>
>
> It comes across as cheap to the outsider.
>
>
> 2) Hutch working on two stations is good for him and
> for both stations.
>
>
>
> 'Nough said on that..glad that Hutch and Greater Media
> are content with the mutual arrangement.
>
> With all these radio companies pushing fewer employees
> harder for less pay. i.e. On the air for 3 or 4 hours
> then voice-track another 3 or 4! Makes for Cheap and
> boring radio.
>
>
>
> 3) College students with no experience are not ready
> for daytime shifts
> on major market stations.  There are a zillion
> subtlities of
> performance that they have yet to learn:  losing a
> regionalism, learning how to
> finesse a mike, how not to pop their P's, how to
> pronounce W, how to
> sound knowledgable and excited about music they didn't
> choose to play and
> might not even like, how to follow a strict format,
> why
> quarter-hour-maintenance liners are important, why
> ratings make or break you, how to
> talk to a demo they're not in yet (especially a demo
> that is, say 20
> years older and of the opposite sex). That's the stuff
> that you learn
> through experience - working at paid jobs out there in
> the real world.
>
>
> Roy Lawrence reply to #3
>
> All Points I highly agree with you on, though most of
> that *should* have been taught to them while they were
> in school there! Except - they need a program director
> who believes in them and is willing to get them to
> that status. Granted, Greater Media is not a school -
> but it is certainly a valuable source for students
> wanting to advance to the next level and do what it
> takes to achieve those goals.
>
>
>
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